Improvement in shovel-plows and cultivators



E. G. & A. 'D. ROWELL, J. R. RICE 8: S. M. SEELEY.

SHOVEL PLOW AND GULTIVATOR Patented .Nov. 1, 1870.

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ELIJAH aRoWELL, ALFONZO D. HOWELL, JA ES- R, men, AND SMITH M. SEELEY, or HARTFORD, WISGONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 108,834, dated November 1 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOVEL-PLOWS AND' CULTIVATORS.

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We, ELIJAn-Q. HOWELL, ALFONZO 1), Bowen.

JAMEs It. RICE, and SMITH M. SEELEY, of Hartford, in the county of Washington and State of Wisconsin,

have invented certain Improvements in Shovel-Pious and Cultivators, of which the following is a sneeilica t-ion.

Nature and Olgjcet of the Invention.

The nature of our. invention is to place twoor more cultivator-teeth in advance of a s'ho\ 'el-plow, to stir up the earth in advance ct, the plow and p'nlverize it, and also to change the plow by taking off the plow-share and supplying a cultivator-tooth and making the in-v A is the plow-beam B B, the handles. v

O, the standard, to which the plorw'share is attached.

D D, the cultivator-flame attached to the plowbeam, and to which the eultivator-teeth are attached.

E E, the cross-bars, attached to the plow-beam and to the frames 1). D.

.F 1 l 1*, cultivator-teeth. G, shovel plow share. H, extracultivator-tooth. Lholt from beam A to standard 0, holding the two together K, nut on the head of a bolt which passes through beam Aaud cross-bars E E, to regulate the distance that-the frame D'D may be apart.

- L, draft-iron on the end of'beam -A.

M M, wings onshovel plow-share, to widen out the share for billing up corn,.or similar purposes.

This plowand cultivator may be'nsed as shown in fig. 1, or the wings mayhe taken from the shovel plowshare, and it can be used without the wings, regulating the frames D D wider or narrower, or it may he used as a cultivator alone, as shown in fig. II, or the frames D D may be taken ofi, and it may he used as ashovel-' plow alone.

' Claim.

We elaini as our invention, I A shovel-plow andculti'vator, constructed with center frame A, handles B B, stem-post 0, side frames D D, cross-bars E, teeth 1*, and plorwshare G, arranged substantially as described.

ELLIAH G. ROWELL. ALFONZO. D. ROWELL. JAMES R. RICE. SMITH M. SEELEY.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. SMITH, H. W. Sswirnn.

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